Just words : Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the failure of public conversation in America / / Alan Ackerman

• Autore: Ackerman Alan L (Alan Louis)
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 361 p.) ) : ports
• Disciplina: 346.73/034
• Soggetto topico: Trials (Libel) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Television talk shows - Political aspects - United States; Libel and slander - United States - History - 20th century; Freedom of speech - United States - History - 20th century; Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-341) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Libel and Life- Writing -- II. Language Lessons -- III. Words of Love -- IV. Choice Words and Political Dramas -- V. Criticism versus Libel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.
• Titolo autorizzato: Just words
• ISBN: 9786613150615; 9781283150613; 1283150611; 9780300171808; 0300171803
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910965274903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II